>> I have reviewed various archives made with various options and I've >> noticed that tar exits silently on the /sys/module/8250/parameters/probe_rsa > > Strange indeed. Can you send me this file, so I try to reproduce the > behavior? >
That is not possible - /sys is a special filesystem mapped by the kernel - something like /proc - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs /sys/module/8250/parameters/probe_rsa is not a normal file and most probably that's why tar fails to continue. I have installed tar 1.16.1 and the problem persists: - when archiving tar exits with exit code 1 (non fatal error) - when tar tvf of the archive just created it prints the following message: ... many other files /sys/module/8250/parameters/probe_rsa tar: A lone zero block at 374059 Now when I know it I'll always --exclude=/sys Next week I'll try to make a smaller archive (current one has 9GB) and send it to you so you can analyse it, but if you had an access to Fedora-based system you could check if the problem appears there. -- Z powazaniem / Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen Pawel Debski Managing Consultant, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 0048-504-766-316, 0048-22-388-7981, 0048-22-730-2794 eConsulting Sp. z o. o. http://econsulting.pl
